Nodal Status Report: Program Update

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Nodal Status ReportProgram Update

• Ron Hinsley

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Agenda

• Health Indicators
• Highlights
• Staffing
• Top Risks / Issues
• Cost

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Health Indicators
Note health indicator measures are located in
the appendix
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Highlights

• All tasks on the critical path completed on
  schedule
• NMMS conducted multi-vendor meeting and agreed to
  frozen schema changes
• Integrated Testing project (INT) has begun
  testing Integrated Release 2.0 (IR 2.0) in the
  integrated testing (i-Test) environment
• IR 2.0 includes components from the Market
  Management System (MMS) and key upstream systems,
  as well as some of the required interfaces
• INTs testing strategy is to begin with MMS as
  the core system, and build out the interfaces
  from there
• EMS scheduled to complete CIM Importer Pre-FAT on
  Oct. 10 and begin FAT on Oct. 13
• Continue to improve processes as an example we
  were able to reduce the time to build and smoke
  test MMS4 Patch 4 from 10 days to 4 days
• Nodal budget progressing as planned
  presentation to Board is TBD

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Staffing Update
The program continues to increase participation
of ERCOT staff while trending down with
contractors.
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Top Risks / Issues
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Cost Element Summary
When the integrated schedule has been finalized
and the financial impact determined we will
incorporate this into an updated forecast.
Note September numbers not available in time for
publication
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Appendix
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Health Indicator Measures
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Questions?